Mangaluru: A technical snag within the BPL card has disadvantaged Srinivas Gowda, a 34-year-old each day wage earner from Malekudiya group, the advantages below the Ayushman Bharat – Arogya Karnataka (AB-ARK) scheme to bear a significant surgical procedure for his spinal cord injury. Activists of Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) have come ahead to assist him on the hospital and to get the problem with the BPL card mounted.
Although he was admitted to the Wenlock District Hospital on August 12, his surgical procedure couldn’t be carried out below the federal government scheme as a result of his identify was lacking from the BPL card as a consequence of technical error. Therefore the federal government had demanded that the affected person, who’s bedridden, to bear 70% of the surgical procedure value.
Gowda had fallen from a tree and sustained a number of accidents on the spinal cord whereas he was working in his native place at Horanadu in Sringeri on August 11. Gowda has his father, who works as a coolie, a physically-challenged brother, and his mom at residence. His neighbours and distant relations have been taking care of the bed-ridden Gowda on the hospital for almost a month now. DYFI activists in Mangaluru even have been lending a serving to hand to Gowda on the hospital.
DYFI state president Muneer Katipalla informed TOI that the hospital has been demanding the affected person to pay Rs 40,000 for an implant required for the surgical procedure. “Since Gowda’s identify is lacking within the BPL card, he’s thought of as an APL member and should bear 70% of the remedy bills. The technical error within the ration card has been rectified a couple of days in the past and his identify is included now,” Muneer mentioned.
When contacted, district medical officer Dr Sadashiva Shangag mentioned: “For the reason that affected person didn’t have a ration card, we had processed his remedy below AB-ARK as an APL beneficiary. For the spinal cord surgical procedure, the package deal quantity allotted below the AB-ARK scheme is Rs 52,000. Nonetheless, for an APL beneficiary, solely 30% of the profit can be sanctioned and the affected person has to pay 70% of the associated fee which is able to come round Rs 25,000. Now they’ve introduced the BPL card by including his identify into it. Therefore, we have now processed the appliance for approval to supply remedy freed from value below the AB-ARK. We are going to conduct surgical procedure below the scheme on Saturday.”
Although he was admitted to the Wenlock District Hospital on August 12, his surgical procedure couldn’t be carried out below the federal government scheme as a result of his identify was lacking from the BPL card as a consequence of technical error. Therefore the federal government had demanded that the affected person, who’s bedridden, to bear 70% of the surgical procedure value.
Gowda had fallen from a tree and sustained a number of accidents on the spinal cord whereas he was working in his native place at Horanadu in Sringeri on August 11. Gowda has his father, who works as a coolie, a physically-challenged brother, and his mom at residence. His neighbours and distant relations have been taking care of the bed-ridden Gowda on the hospital for almost a month now. DYFI activists in Mangaluru even have been lending a serving to hand to Gowda on the hospital.
DYFI state president Muneer Katipalla informed TOI that the hospital has been demanding the affected person to pay Rs 40,000 for an implant required for the surgical procedure. “Since Gowda’s identify is lacking within the BPL card, he’s thought of as an APL member and should bear 70% of the remedy bills. The technical error within the ration card has been rectified a couple of days in the past and his identify is included now,” Muneer mentioned.
When contacted, district medical officer Dr Sadashiva Shangag mentioned: “For the reason that affected person didn’t have a ration card, we had processed his remedy below AB-ARK as an APL beneficiary. For the spinal cord surgical procedure, the package deal quantity allotted below the AB-ARK scheme is Rs 52,000. Nonetheless, for an APL beneficiary, solely 30% of the profit can be sanctioned and the affected person has to pay 70% of the associated fee which is able to come round Rs 25,000. Now they’ve introduced the BPL card by including his identify into it. Therefore, we have now processed the appliance for approval to supply remedy freed from value below the AB-ARK. We are going to conduct surgical procedure below the scheme on Saturday.”
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